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William L. Thomas
Publications - 84
Citations - 13475
William L. Thomas is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Interactive television & Server. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 84 publications receiving 13475 citations.
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Interactive television program guide with remote access
Michael D. Ellis,William L. Thomas,Joel G. Hassell,Thomas R. Lemmons,David M. Berezowski,Robert A. Knee,Mccoy Robert H +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, an interactive television program guide with remote access is provided, where a remote program guide access device is connected to the interactive TV program guide equipment by a remote access link.
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Client-server based interactive television program guide system with remote server recording
TL;DR: An interactive television program guide system is provided in this article, which provides users with an opportunity to select programs for recording on a remote media server and to designate gift recipients for whom programs may be recorded.
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Systems and methods for interactive program guides with personal video recording features
TL;DR: In this article, an interactive television application (application) may be implemented to provide enhanced personal video recorder (PVR) and interactive television program guide (IPG) functionality are provided.
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Client-server electronic program guide
TL;DR: In this paper, an interactive television program guide client is implemented on user television equipment, which provides users with an opportunity to define expressions that are processed by the program guide server and parentally lock programs based on the expressions.
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Interactive television program guide system having multiple devices within a household
TL;DR: In this article, an interactive television program guide system based on multiple user television equipment devices in a single household is provided, which provides a user with an opportunity to adjust program guide settings with a given one of the interactive program guides.